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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The search for the sinking wreck of the Titanic submarine cruiser, Titan, has finally yielded results. The United States Coast Guard (US) said it located the wreckage area.

US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger said a robotic submarine deployed from a Canadian vessel found debris from the Titan submarine early Thursday (6/22/2023) morning local time , on the ocean floor about 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic’s bow, 4 km below the surface.

“On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and throughout the Unified Command, I extend my deepest condolences to the family,” Mauger said.

He said the Titanic submarine carrying five people was found in pieces in the “terrifying explosion” that killed everyone on board.

Five major Titan fragments 22 feet (6.7 meters) long lie in a field of debris left over from its destruction, including the ship’s tail cone and two sections of the pressure hull. He did not say whether any human remains had been found.

Titan’s Last Voyage

Titan, which is 21 feet (6.5 meters) long, is operated by OceanGate Expeditions. The vessel began its descent on Sunday morning (6/18/2023) local time and lost contact with the surface less than two hours later.

The US Coast Guard said it had launched an exhaustive search about 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, while the Canadian Coast Guard said it was also participating in the effort with fixed-wing aircraft and a ship sent to the search area.

Cause of the explosion

Mauger said the Coast Guard could not confirm when or why the ship exploded and declined to know if the remains of the wreckage would be recovered.

“It’s a very unforgiving environment down there at the bottom of the ocean,” he said.

The U.S. military first detected the plane’s possible explosion on a top-secret underwater sound-monitoring device shortly after it went missing on Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

“The United States Navy has performed an analysis of acoustic data and has detected an anomaly consistent with an explosion or explosion in the vicinity of where the submarine Titan was operating when communications were lost,” a senior told the Journal. Navy official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

It is not known where or how deep Titan was when the explosion occurred, but the wreckage of the Titanic lies nearly 13,000 feet (nearly 4,000 meters) below sea level. condition indicates the occurrence of an underwater implosion or explosion.

“At the bottom of the Titanic’s berth there was a pressure of about 5,600 pounds per square inch, several hundred times the pressure we experience on the surface,” according to Rick Murcar, director of international training at the National. Association of Cave Divers.

“The big bang was so fast it happened in a fraction of a millisecond, said Aileen Maria Marty,” said a former Navy officer and professor at Florida International University. CNN International.

“Everything would fall apart before the people inside even realized there was a problem. In the end, of the many ways we could have gotten away with it, it wasn’t painful.”

Profile of the victim

OceanGate first released a statement saying there were no survivors of the five people aboard the Titan, including company founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who piloted the Titan.

The other four are British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding (58), Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood (48) and his 19-year-old son Suleman, both of British nationality, and the famous specialist French accident expert and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet (77 years old). ) ) who has visited the wreck dozens of times.

“These people are true explorers with a distinct spirit of adventure and deep discovery to explore and protect the world’s oceans,” the company said. “Our hearts go out to these five souls and each member of their family at this tragic time.”

Rescue teams from multiple countries spent days scanning thousands of square miles of open seas with planes and ships looking for signs of Titan.

(luc/luc)